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NEIL CLIFFORD ANd) A. N. BELL, OF BROOKLYN,v NEW YORK. Letters Patent7%. 64,841, dated lfay. 21, 1867i IMPROVEMENT IN DEODORIZERS PORPRIVY-SEATS.

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TO ALL WHOM I'l MAY CONCERN y Beit known that we, NEIL CLIFFOR) and A.N. BELL, of Brooklyn, in the county o'f Kings, and Stateo' New York,haveinventeda new and improved Disinfecting Seat for Privies, &c,., andthat the following description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exactspecification of the same, wherein we have set'iorth the natureand'principles of our said improvements, 'by' which our invention may bedistinguished from all others of' a similar class, together with suchparts -as we claim and desire to have secured to us by Letters Patent.

The present inventionveonsists in combining with the seat of a privy,water-closet, cloaca, or other similar place, by whatever name called, areceptacle for a deodorizing ordisinfecting material, 'whether in theform of a liquid or powder,vin such a manner and in so connecting itwith the said seat that, vwhen such seat is used, or

pressure is in any other suitable manner brought to bear upon the same,or released therefrom, the deodorizing' or disinfectngma'terial'contained inthe vessel combined with the seat, will be therebysprinkled or otherwise discharged into the vault below the seat,provided for the reception of the excrement and urine, and mixing withit, thus prevent the atmosphere from becoming polluted, vitiated, orpoisoned by the disgusting elif'luvia v arising from such places, as atpresent and heretofore constructed; or, in -other words, deodorize ordisinfect the said excrementrand urine, the arrangement of parts betweenthe privyor other seat andthe receptacle for the deodorizing materialbeing such as to admit of being adjusted to discharge a greater orlesseramount or quantity of the deodorizing or disinfecting agent. Inthe accompanying plat-e of drawings our improvements in privy and othersimilar seats are representedl Figure l being a plan or top view of thesame, broken ont to more fully illustrate our invention; and

Figure 2, a transverse vertical section, taken in the plane of the linen: rv, iigi 1.

A, in the drawings, represents the framework or box-portion of a seatsuitable for a privyor water-closet. To the rear side B of thisbox-portion A the scat-board C is hinged so as to be swung up, and thusto open the box A, or to be swung down and over the same, in positionfor being used as with ordinary privy and watercloset seats. Thisseat-board is provided with the usual opening D in its centre, or nearlyso, and when down it rests upon the arms E of coiled sprinfrs F attachedt0 the upper side of the bottom board or plate G of the seat-v box A.Below the seat-board C,"in its box A, and just back of the rear edge oftl1eseatopening D, around' which it'partially extends, is secured avessel or receptacle, H, made of a semicircular, annular', or ringshape. The bottom plate of this vessel is provided with a series ofopenings or perforations, a, corresponding to which are openings, b,made inthe bottom plate J of the vessel or receptacle K, arranged .tomore or slide within the vessel H, it being a little shorter than thesame, butof a corresponding shape in transverse section. Within theinner ves el K ot' the two vessels H and K, the deodorizing ordisinfectiug material or agent, whether-vin the form of asbowder orliquid, is placed, from which, through the'perforations ofits bottomplate J, and thence through the corresponding openings in the ybottomplate of the outer vessel, it is disehargedinto the vault below theprivy-seat by sliding or moving the inner vessel Iiforward and backwardwithin the outer vessel H; this movement being imparted to the saidinner vessel byu-nd through the upward movement ofthe seat, as thepressuro upon it is released by the person rising theref`1'om, thearrangement of-devices'for such purpose being as follows, viz: L, aconnected to one end of the inner sliding vessel K by screw-nuts M, andat its other hung to a bmd plate,'Nwhicli, in its turn, is hung to anupright standard or plate, 0, secured to the bottoni board oftheseat-box A. This bell-crank plate N,at oneportion,is made with ahook-shaped flange, P, below which the edge c of' the plate 'is ot' acam shape. To the under side of the seatboard is hung a pawl, O, inpropel' position forengaging with the hook-shaped portion of thebell-crank plate N, as the seat is depressed by tbeweight oithe personwho is` sitting upon it, in connection with which 1t is held, by theaction ofthe bent spring Il., until the person rising from the seat,(leaving'the seat then free to rise by the. action of the springs uponwhich it rests`,) its hook or pawl` turns the bell-crank plate N, andthrough it slides the inner box of the two boxes Il and K, when, thesaid pawl being thrown out of connection with the said bell-crank, bythe action of its cam-shaped edge against the same, the inner vessel isthen drawn or moved back to its original position, by the coiled spring'.Ihung at one end to the bell-cra`nk, and at its other to thestationary vessel H, as is obvio-us without any furtherexplanation.

in to be understood that if the inner Avessel K be filled, or partiallyso,

with any substance, or material, or agent, whether in the form of aliquid or powder, which is suitable for use as a deodorizer or asadisinfectant, bythe use of the seat, such substance, or material, oragent employed must be discharged or scattered into the vault orreceptacle below the seat provided to receive the excrementitiousdeposits, and thus mixing therewith, serve to counteract and destroy allthe obnoxious and unhealthy odors and eflluvia which arise from suchdeposits, whereby the vitiating and poisoning of the air is prevented.By hanging the connecting-rod te the disinfectant receptacle or vesselby the two nuts M, as explained, .the length of movement of the saidvessel can be increased or decreased at pleasure, as is obvious',whereby the quantity or amount of disinfecting material or agentdischarged into the privy-vault or other place wpon which the scat isused, can be regulated according as may be desired. The disinfectantreceptacle may be provided with a cover, for the purpose of closing thesame, but I do not deem it necessary; and, furthermore, in lieu of onlyextending partially around the hole in the seat-board, it may ext-endentirely around the same, or nearly so', and also the said receptaclemay be made of various shapes other than that herein particularlydescribed, and also 4the manner of connecting it to the seat., to beoperated thereby, may be varied iu many respects without departing fromthe principles of the present inventionY as hereinbefore ,stated, andtherefore we do not intend to limit f the disinfectant receptacle, norto the particular means described ourselves to any one particular fornior size o for operating'the saine to discharge the disinfectant by andthrough the movement of the seat-b.oard.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- The combination, with -the seat of a privy,water-closet, or other similar place, of whatever naine called, of areccptacleorvessel for the reception and holding of any suitabledeodorize'r or disinfectant, whether in the form of a lirluid or powder,when such vessel or receptacle is so constructed and connected with theseatboard that by the depression or upward movement of the seat, orboth, the said disinfectant or deodorzer will be discharged into thevault of the privy, Snc., substantially as and for the purposedescribed.i

'l'he above specification of our invention signed by us this 11th day ofAugust, 1866.

A. N. BELL,

NEIL CLIFFORD.

From the above description it is pla Witnesses:

WM. F. MeNAMAnA,

ALBERT W.; BROWN.

